Kim Scott may be Aboriginal Australia’s most successful novelist, but “the writing stuff,” he says, is something that happens “between jobs.”

Mr. Scott in June became the first Aboriginal author to win Australia’s most prestigious prize for fiction, the 50,000 Australian dollar (US$52,939) Miles Franklin Literary Award, for a second time, with his novel “That Deadman Dance.” He was the first indigenous writer to win the award with his novel “Benang” in 2000, and joins literary heavyweights Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally and Patrick White in a select group that has picked up the Miles Franklin trophy more than once.

But writing novels is just one aspect of Mr. Scott’s life. Read More »